William Goldman citations

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“What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?”

“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.”

“The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw.
Chocolate.”

“I'm not witch. I'm your wife.”

“Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.”

“I must learn.”

“You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.


(Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)”

“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”

“Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble,
His brain is just not in the pink,
His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double,
Because everyone needs him to think.”

“Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.”

“The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.”

“I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.”

“But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.”

“There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.”

“Nobody knows anything…… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”

“Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.”

“In Hollywood, no one knows anything.”

“Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.”

“I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.”

“But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.”

“You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.”

“You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across…”

“I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.”

“Is this a kissing book?”

“You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.”

“you miserable vomitous mass”